A big "transfer"! ? Amen suddenly defected...

According to multimedia reports such as "RealGM" and "Open-Air Stand", the brothers Amen Thompson and Osar Thompson are currently considering playing in the FIBA ​​international competition for Jamaica, and it can be said that they are basically announced.

Although there have been rumors before, this rumor has been rumored, it has not been expected that it has made very rapid progress.

Yesterday, the Thompson brothers had already gone to Jamaica's first Kingston meeting with Jamaica Basketball Association Chairman Paulton Gordon. This meeting was actually an informal meeting. Both sides were considered easy to eat because players needed to take a cumbersome procedure for playing international events for non-birth countries, and the two brothers actually had many steps in the first step at the moment. The

brothers are currently applying for Jamaican citizenship. After the meeting between the two sides, the Jamaica Basketball Association also revealed to the media that "it should be close."

They admitted that they had actually had contact with Thompson's father Troy Thompson five years ago, but the previous contacts have been piecemeal, so there is only a relatively complete plan now.

Troy is not only Amen and Osal's father, but also the agent of these two future stars. The basketball business is a family business in their family, so the number of meetings with the Jamaica Basketball Association is very scattered. (The picture below is Amen’s father)

FIBA requires players to obtain their passport before the age of 16 to be eligible to represent the country in international competitions. If not, there will be some complex procedures to ensure that these players are eligible. So in fact, Amen and Osar have missed the best opportunity to naturalize, and now the naturalization procedure will be more complicated.

However, because Troy Thompson himself is a Jamaican, if they are naturalized, it is still different from the conventional naturalization procedures.

Amen should be considered a "defection" this time. Although it is not a big problem for him to fight for his father in theory, because he was actually selected as a US national team coach before, he is actually one of the talent reserves of the Dream Team [Dog Head].

Currently, his information is still in the USA's official basketball association's talent pool.

However, it is normal for basketball talents to naturalize each other nowadays, especially in some dual-national countries, where the entire national team may be naturalized or possible.

Even the world basketball overlord, the United States, has naturalized Embiid, and other countries have followed suit and followed suit.

Jamaica's enthusiasm for naturalization has reached its peak in recent years, and their goal is also very dedicated: to qualify for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Their basketball team chairman said the ultimate goal is to naturalize at least 10 NBA rotation players.

Because Jamaica is very close to the United States, they also want to use the sports event of the big brother in Tongzhou to improve their competitiveness. In terms of basketball, they not only hope to naturalize 5v5 talents, but also hope to naturalize 3x3 players.

This is also the reason why they have become crazy naturalized in the past two years. In addition to the Thompson brothers, they have contacted players who are basically related to Jamaican blood, such as the Suns' center Richards, the Pistons' regicide Stewart, the Timberwolves' Minnot, and the Wizards' Champany.

And the Clippers' No. 2 scorer Powell has also promised to join the Jamaica national team.